Introduction

Anastasios Brenner and Jean Gayon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  01

Part I: Styles in Philosophy of Science and Technology

 Anne Fagot-Largeault: The Legend of Philosophy’s

Striptease: Trends in Philosophy of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

 Daniel Parrochia: French Philosophy of Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  51

Part II: General Philosophy of Science

 Anastasios Brenner : A Problem in General Philosophy of Science:

The Rational Criteria of Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  73

 Sandra Laugier: Science and Realism: The Legacy of Duhem and

Meyerson in Contemporary American Philosophy of Science . . . . . . . . . 91

Part III: Physical and Chemical Sciences

 Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji: Philosophy and 20th Century Physics . . . . . . . 115

 Hervé Zwirn: Foundations of Physics: The Empirical Blindness . . . . . . . 141

 Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent: Philosophy of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Part IV: Life Sciences

 François Dagognet: Pharmacology as a Philosophical Object . . . . . . . . 189

 Jean Gayon: Philosophy of Biology: An Historico-critical

Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

 Claude Debru: Philosophy and Contemporary Biological Research . . .  213

Part V: Philosophy of the Behavorial and Cognitive Sciences

 Joëlle Proust: What Is a Mental Function? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

 Daniel Andler: Philosophy of Cognitive Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255

Part VI: Philosophy of Economics

 Philippe Mongin: Duhemian Themes in Expected Utility Theory . . . . . . 303

Notes on the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  359

Name Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .367